Mid Summer, signifying the mid point of the growing season throughout Europe will witness a rarely seen traditional ceremony in modern day Ireland, a mountain top bonfire at sunset! Yet, for the Aughakillymaude folk actors this will be their fourth year on the trot to celebrate the cardinal turning point in the calendar year. A full score of mummers "rigged out" in plaited straw "get up" will snake their way up the Bronze Age Knockninny Cairn on Knockninny rock and form an atmospheric procession at dusk.

Brandishing aloft naked flamed torches, (risk assessment, how are ye!) mummers of all shapes and sizes will trek silently across the stoney summit, against the backdrop of the Lough Erne basin and proceed to encircle the lighted bonfire as per tradition. In clockwise direction, three encirclements will be made, led by a solitary bagpiper in reverence of the strength of the sun and the abundance of promise which the sun brings.

Of particular importance for the mummers will be the fulfilment of a good harvest of ryestraw which is being grown at the foot of the rock, so that a new batch of mumming costumes can be made for the winter mumming season.

Music and song will follow the bonfire as will the ceremonial lighting of the beacon to mark the longest day of the year. Closing the event will be the traditional burning of mummers hats from last year. From Saturday midnight onwards the power of the sun is set to wane, the days will gradually shorten onto to the gradual march into winter. This year's mountain top mid summer bonfire will be preceded by a hectic afternoon of activities held in Big Rosie's Meadow in front of the Aughakillymaude Mummers Centre.